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This article appears in the following Nucleic Acid Symposium Series issue: The 6th International Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry (36th Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry) [View the issue table of contents]
Synthesis and properties of terminally modified oligonucleotides capable of short-RNA selective hybridization
Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Bioscience and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
*Corresponding author. E-mail: kseio{at}bio.titech.ac.jp msekine{at}bio.titech.ac.jp
Abstract
We have developed 2'-O-methyl-RNAs having phosphorylated cyclohexane at the 5' and/or 3'-terminal adenine. These 2'-O-methyl-RNAs formed less stable duplex with the longer target RNA than that with the short target RNA. We tried to improve the short-RNA selective hybridization property by the synthesis of 2'-O-methyl-RNAs having terminal guanine modifications.